NC Tennis Foundation
Grants & Scholarships
The NC Tennis Foundation offers many grant and scholarship opportunities for under-resourced programs and participants throughout North Carolina.
2025 JL Stacks NJTL Grant
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Deadline: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
2025 Anthony Blackman Scholars
Deadline: Friday, May 2, 2025
2025 Summer College Camp Scholarship
Deadline: Friday, April 18, 2025
2025 Emily H. Preyer New or Outreach Program Grant
Deadline: Friday, April 18, 2025
2025 Middle School Team Grant
Deadline: Friday, August 1st, 2025
2025 High School Team Grant
Deadline: Friday, August 1st, 2025
2025 NCTFJunior Development Grant
Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025
2025 Saunders-Langford Junior Development Grant
Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025
Our Endowments
In memory of her late husband, J.L. Stacks, Jean Stacks Harrold established this fund to epitomize a life well-lived and to make available to underserved NC NJTL youth, tennis & education opportunities that would have been beneficial to JL as a young tennis player. No surprise that J.L.'s humility, strength of character, and firm work ethic exhibited in his personal life also carried over to his professional life - and on the tennis court!
Scott Pollard passed away after a brave battle with cancer in August 2020. To honor his memory, Phi Delta Theta fraternity brothers and many friends have come together to create a fund to assist Junior NC tennis players to develop and compete at the highest levels.
The Saunders-Langford Endowment provides juniors the opportunity to experience tournament tennis and reap the benefits of competing and developing lifelong relationships. This endowment provides need based grants to players from small North Carolina communities to help them participate in tournaments.
Emily H. Preyer Family Endowment
The NC Tennis Foundation completed a capital campaign raising over $1.7 million in 2006. A portion of that money went to help create a new NC Tennis Hall of Fame which opened at the Harold T. and Mildred F. Southern North Carolina Tennis Center in 2008.
A main focus of the campaign was to create the NC Tennis Foundation Emily H. Preyer Family Endowment Fund. The NC Tennis Foundation offers grants annually from the endowment or gift fund.
Founded by friends and colleagues in honor of Anthony Blackman, a dedicated civic and servant leader, this initiative aims to acknowledge and reward exceptional high school in the Raleigh-Cary area who have positively impacted their tennis communities.
Additional Grants of Interest
"NC Tennis Foundation helped us start our NJTL four years ago and have continued to advise and support us each year since then. Their staff introduced us to the ACE curriculum, helped train our volunteers, gave us advice about grants, and provided us with great prizes for our contests."